National Rail Enquiries tweet: this was utterly serious guardian.co.uk

It's a work of art – redolent as it is of previous great British creations such as The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (whose given reasons for being late did once include "escaped puma at Chessington North" – which made him 22 minutes late rather than the previous 11) and of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with its famous rant by Arthur Dent:

Arthur Dent: "You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything."Council jobsworth: "But the plans were on display …"AD: "On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."CJ: "That's the display department.""With a torch.""Ah, well the lights had probably gone.""So had the stairs.""But look you found the notice didn't you?""Yes. Yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of The Leopard'."

(We should admire the cosmic ordering that links the initials in that quote back to Reginald Perrin, of course.)